Dave, You were slightly earlier and closer to the source I guess. When I started with computers in 1970, it was with a 4 KB computer, of course using magnetic core memory, and teletype and papertape as I/O devices. I very well remember having to key in about 12 instructions on the frontpanel as bootloader, to start the machine. Programming then was witchcraft in assembly language; a totally different activity compared to programming nowadays. But it was only 6 years later in 1976 that I was so lucky to visit Bell Labs and meet the likes of Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan, and hear about the UNIX operating system, which I used since then. Looking at my Android-based mobile phone, based on Linux/UNIX, it is sometimes difficult to really grasp the progress what has been made in 40 years.
Leo Noordhuizen - The Netherlands On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Ed Reeder <e_ree...@mailup.net> wrote: > Dave, > I meant physical security in terms of protection from fire and other > forms of destruction. > These sites go to great lengths to ensure that your data is protected > against these potential threats. > > /Ed > > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:23 -0500, "Dave Tutelman" > <dtutel...@optonline.net> wrote: > <snip> > > > > >One thing to investigate is backing up over the Internet. It provides > > >both physical security > > >and general availability. > > > > Internet backup trades physical reliability (not security) against > > data security. It is in fact LESS secure, even if more reliable. If > > the backup is on my shelf and not connected to anything (especially > > not the Internet), then it can't be hacked. > -- > Shoptalk ** Sponsored by the new Aldila Voodoo. > Learn more at http://aldilavoodoo.com/ >
